Adventures with a Poodle & Baby

Jacob's Preschool Christmas Video

Jacob Puts Away the Dishes - Video

Good Movie for Jacob & Parents?

Here's a question for everyone -
Jacob loves to watch movies. Some we also like to watch, others are annoying. Some we like to watch for the first 50 times, but then at the 51st viewing it gets old.

Barney - Jacob's first love, we never liked it
Thomas the Train - A big hit all around, but they're short
Willy Wonka, Mary Poppins, Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang - All great movies for all of us.
Veggie Tales - he likes only sometimes and but they only hold his attention for 15 minutes.

Are there other movies like Willy Wonka, Mary Poppins that you know of?

He doesn't really care for animated Disney movies, for some reason. But we have a ton of them - maybe when he gets older. But for now, I would like to find other Chitty-Chitty type movies.

Ricci Film @ Michigan Renaissance Festival

Today the family went to the Michigan Renaissance Festival in Holly, MI. While we were there we sat for a while to watch some filming of All's Faire in Love, a film about a renaissance faire theater troupe. It's a romantic comedy with Christina Ricci and Owen Benjamin being the lead love story. The filming was going on at the jousting grounds. Anyone could walk in and sit down to be part of the background crowd. We tried to sit in the back row for a while, but Jacob became a little bored just waiting around so we left to find lunch.

Here's a photo from the filming, with Michigan stand-ins during tech set-up.

Here's Christina Ricci and Owen Benjamin taking direction for the scene.

Here's a shot of the action. The girl standing in the red dress might be Nadine Velazquez from My Name is Earl.

A shot of the movie setup. Actors on the left, directors on the right.

Jacob's Video Journal - Crawling

Check out this video. If you don't have a cable modem or faster, it may take an hour to download. The video is 3 minutes and has sound.

Jacob's First YouTube Video

Watch with amazement as Jacob almost crawls, and then gives up to investigate some lint.